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NXT City Prize: Jay Wall uses graphic design to improve Toronto
The NXT CITY PRIZE is all about vision to reimagine Toronto’s public spaces and inject a sense of energy, dynamism and reflexivity. With a focus on ideas...
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Meet Bertie the Brain, the world’s first arcade game, built in Toronto
Almost two decades before the first video game found its way into an arcade, the Canadian National Exhibition hosted a strange electronic device with an...
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Playing underground: a retro board game about the Toronto subway
At first glance, the Subway Toronto board game looks every bit of its 20 years of age. Its appearance is dated and a little dull, having been discontinued...
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NXT City Prize: Changing the fabric of the city with Meg Graham
The NXT CITY PRIZE is all about vision to reimagine Toronto’s public spaces and inject a sense of energy, dynamism and reflexivity. With a focus on ideas...
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NXT City Prize: Rob Spanier and mixed use buildings
The NXT CITY PRIZE is all about vision to reimagine Toronto’s public spaces and inject a sense of energy, dynamism and reflexivity. With a focus on ideas...
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NXT City Prize: Transforming streets with Calvin Brook
The NXT CITY PRIZE is all about vision to reimagine Toronto’s public spaces and inject a sense of energy, dynamism and reflexivity. With a focus on ideas...
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NXT City Prize: Sheldon Levy and transforming spaces
The NXT CITY PRIZE is all about vision to reimagine Toronto’s public spaces and inject a sense of energy, dynamism and reflexivity. With a focus on ideas...
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NXT CITY PRIZE: Brent Toderian on improving public spaces
The NXT CITY PRIZE is all about vision to reimagine Toronto’s public spaces and inject a sense of energy, dynamism and reflexivity. With a focus on ideas...
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How the Simcoes fell in love — and the magical hills where it happened
These are the Blackdown Hills. They’re one of England’s official “Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty,” all rolling green...
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Bridge Building / Building Bridge
Editor’s note: This is the twelfth post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece features...
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LORINC: The obvious choice for Toronto’s next top cop
Say you’re a cop in your mid-40s, and you run a police force in a largish city in, say, the U.S. north-west, or the United Kingdom, or maybe even...
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Revisiting the Uxbridge–Peterborough Rail Trails
Two years ago, I wrote about a cycling day trip that I took between Uxbridge and Peterborough. I rode mostly on rail trails between the two communities...
By Sean Marshall
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered